Here's an odd one I'll admit to. It took 12 years for Ally McBeal to finally hit DVD, which I just noticed it did. I netflixed the first season because I remember liking the little bit I saw of it when it was on.

Through a fairly convoluted chain of a cousin, his friends and returning to Australia we recently acquired a huge collection of unwanted DVDs. I started watching the Sopranos, it's much better than I remember.

daftbeaker wrote:Through a fairly convoluted chain of a cousin, his friends and returning to Australia we recently acquired a huge collection of unwanted DVDs. I started watching the Sopranos, it's much better than I remember.

It was an excellent series. The scenes with the analyst were great. That's one of the fascinating things about US TV, everyone has an analyst...even the mafia.

Like Ark, I'm reviewing UFO material. In that I'm watching some 1st season episodes of the X-Files. I have to say, I don't remember the special effects being this hokey on the X-Files. I'm thinking (hoping?) that the later seasons got a bigger budget.

"How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, 'This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant. God must be even greater than we dreamed'? Instead they say, 'No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.'" - Carl Sagan

"To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection." - Henri Poincaré

I don't think so. I grew up watching Doctor Who on PBS, and then when I went back years later and watched them on DVD, the special effects looked pretty much the way I remember them. However, I am pretty sure that I wasn't watching the X-Files until about season 3, and it took a couple seasons before it became an "it" show, so it would make sense that the effects got better.

Although you do bring up a good idea for people to post on: shows that you fondly remember, only to rewatch them years later and you realize they suck. For me, that would have to be the Thundercats. As a wee lad, I obsessively watched that show. Then as a teenager, I watched an episode on Cartoon Network, and I was just like, "Was I really so stupid that I found this crap riveting?" By contrast, then and now I still like the original transformers cartoons.

"How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, 'This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant. God must be even greater than we dreamed'? Instead they say, 'No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.'" - Carl Sagan

"To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection." - Henri Poincaré

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